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Date: 28 Sep 2007 17:34:13
Title: Update
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Hopefully, tomorrow we'll have made it into Maroua where we can get a proper internet link and send some photos. Attached are shots of our new home (external shot, view from the front door and one of the living area), an overview of the hospital from a hill above it, a shot of part of the hospital courtyard with one of the resident vultures and one Anne took of a small girl with a doll on her back, just as the local women carry their infants, but note the skin colour of the doll! Anne has now visited all four schools she'll be working with, plus the local secondary school. She travelled by delapidated moto - rented by Godam Albert from his brother. Some of the classes are huge - over 130 in one, and more than 100 is common. They're short of both classrooms and teachers. In one school, one of the teachers was carrying a stick which looked suspisciously like something used to beat the children, but that's unconfirmed. The secondary school is fairly new and Anne had a really good meeting with the head teacher, who spent some time at Moray House teacher training college in Edinburgh! Although it's not on the list of schools she'll be working with, we think the head teacher is interested in having contact. I'm still feeling very inadequate as far as the workk in the hospital is concerned. I'm keen to get "stuck in", but still have a lot to learn. I reckon it will be several weeks yet until I'm able to make any kind of effective contribution.

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